Twitter launched their partnership with the video app, Vine, which allows users to shoot brief videos and directly tweet them. The social media company had acquired the video-sharing app in October, according to All Things D.

As of now, the Vine app is only available for iPhone and iTouch users through the App Store, Twitter’s blog informed— to be followed by other mobile platforms.

How It works

Vine operates separately from Twitter, but the short videos are directly embedded into your tweets. You can sign up with your email or Twitter username.

To shoot a video, you basically touch and hold your screen for the amount of time desired — there’s a timer across the top to indicate the remaining seconds, no more than six — to create loops, quick cuts or shoot a full video. It only operates from your back camera, not your front lens.

The video-sharing app exudes the Instagram-feel — without the filters.

You can comment, like and apply hashtags to your posts. Other features include an explore tab, to browse trending videos and editor’s picks. You can link your Facebook and Twitter and search for those contacts on there too. And since it’s a sharing community, there’s a flagging option too.

Not The First Video App

Although it’s the first app to directly post onto Twitter, Vine isn’t the first video-sharing app.

There’s the highly-popular Cinemagram app, which allows you to mix photos and video snippet and apply filters, and Facebook’s Poke app, which mimics another video and photo sharing app, Snapchat, and destroys messages upon an expiration time stamp.

Twitter’s video initiative looks a lot like GIFs, moving picture graphics that have been popular around the web since their inception — you might have seen a few on cats or Honey Boo Boo.

Vine’s feed is already being populated with videos of dogs, employees at the workplace and food.

With so much sharing already going on, we wonder what people will be “vining.”